How to format your references using the Cell Biology and Toxicology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cell Biology and Toxicology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Bignami GF. A 1,000-year chain of thinkers. Nature. 2000 Mar 16;404(6775):227.

A journal article with 2 authors

Seder RA, Hill AV. Vaccines against intracellular infections requiring cellular immunity. Nature. 2000 Aug 17;406(6797):793–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mennill DJ, Ratcliffe LM, Boag PT. Female eavesdropping on male song contests in songbirds. Science. 2002 May 3;296(5569):873.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

O’Shea JJ, Kanno Y, Chen X, Levy DE. Cell signaling. Stat acetylation--a key facet of cytokine signaling? Science. 2005 Jan 14;307(5707):217–8.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Çayirci E, Rong C. Security in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2009.

An edited book

Distante C, Battiato S, Cavallaro A, editors. Video Analytics for Audience Measurement: First International Workshop, VAAM 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, August 24, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Ansari N, Zhang J. Media Access Control and Resource Allocation in EPON and 10G-EPON. In: Zhang J, editor. Media Access Control and Resource Allocation: For Next Generation Passive Optical Networks. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 29–51.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cell Biology and Toxicology.

Blog post

Taub B. Parasitic Birds Plan Their Hits Like Professional Burglars [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/parasitic-birds-plan-hits-like-professional-burglars/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. Farmers Home Administration’s ADP Development Project--Current Status and Unresolved Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1980 Feb. Report No.: CED-80-67.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Goldberg DS. Poly (amido amine) dendrimers: Transepithelial transport mechanisms and applications in oral drug delivery [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Shpigel B. While Nashville Parties, the Predators Cut Loose. New York Times. 2017 Jun 4;SP7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bignami 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bignami 2000; Seder and Hill 2000).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Seder and Hill 2000)
Three or more authors: (O’Shea et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cell Biology and Toxicology
Abbreviation	Cell Biol. Toxicol.
ISSN (print)	0742-2091
ISSN (online)	1573-6822
Scope	Cell Biology Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis Toxicology